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First nights at the opera

Title
First nights at the opera / Thomas Forrest Kelly.
Author
Kelly, Thomas Forrest.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Description
xvii, 441 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"In First Nights at the Opera, the renowned music scholar Thomas Kelly narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age by taking us behind the scenes at the premier performances of five influential operas."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.401-405), discography and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto -- Ch. 2. Wolfgang Amade Mozart, Il dissoluto punito, ossia Il Don Giovanni -- Ch. 3. Giacomo Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots -- Ch. 4. Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold -- Ch. 5. Giuseppe Verdi, Otello -- Recommended recordings / Robert J. Dennis.
ISBN
  • 0300100442 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300115261 (pbk.)
  • 9780300115260 (pbk.)
LCCN
2004006932
OCLC
  • ocm54817588
  • SCSB-9446070
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries